Posts Tagged ‘homes’

Southend in Essex recorded the biggest rise in house prices among Britain's towns and cities over the past year, according to the biggest mortgage lender, as estate agents report commuters travelling ...
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Falling house prices have turned 840,000 homebuyers into “mortgage prisoners”, according to one of the biggest banks in the world – but there is no need to suffer in silence. These people’...
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House prices would be hit and many older people forced to sell family homes by an increase in council tax to “fix the broken housing market”, as proposed by an influential think tank today....
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The rich are different, ‘The Great Gatsby’ author F Scott Fitzgerald observed nearly a century ago. Now new research from HSBC – one of the biggest banks in the world – shows how that remains ...
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House prices slipped 2.4pc lower last month, according to Halifax, Britain’s biggest mortgage lender but they remain expensive by historic standards and could fall nearly a fifth further. Valuation ...
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Falling house prices are not the only reason rising numbers of homebuyers have become “prisoners in their own property” as banks’ and building societies’ reluctance to lend after the credit cr...
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House prices increased by 7.7pc over the last year among newly built properties, raising fears that Government initiatives to help first-time buyers could be luring many to overpay their way into nega...
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Pensioners will pay £3.3bn more tax by 2016 to fund the fiscal “simplicity” promised by Chancellor George Osborne in Budget 2012. That’s the Treasury estimate of how freezing age-related allowa...
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